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Institute of Medicine’s Five Core Competencies
MedEDirect strongly encourages if faculties, planners, and consultants to develop their presentations and instructional activities to assist healthcare professionals to improve and enhance the five core competencies identified by the National Academy of Science Institute of Medicine. These are:
1. Patient centered care: Identify, respect and care about patients’ differences, values, preferences, and expressed needs; relieve pain and suffering; coordinate continuous care; listen to, clearly inform, communicate with, and educate patients; share decision making and management; and continuously advocate disease prevention, wellness, and promotion of healthy lifestyles, including a focus on population health.
2. Interdisciplinary teams: Cooperate, collaborate, communicate, and integrate care in teams to ensure that care is continuous and reliable.
3. Evidence-based practice: Integrate best research and clinical expertise and patient values for optimum care, and participate in learning and research activities to the extent feasible.
4. Quality improvement: Identify errors and hazards in care; understand and implement basic safety design principles, such as standardization and simplification; continually understand and measure quality of care in terms of structure, process, and outcomes in relation to patient and community needs; design and test interventions to change processes and systems of care, with the objective of improving quality.
5. Informatics: Communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making using information technology.
Faculties are requested to demonstrate these elements and integrate them into their presentation and instruction.
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